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The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-06-22
Estimate of the Wool Clin.

An estimate of the wool clip of this
country, prepared by the Philadelphia
Textile association, places the total un-
washed wool at POS, 595, 126 pounds, and
washed, SO, 469, 524; grand total, 261 ,469,
$50 pounds, which reduced to secured
wool, taking ordinary shrinkage, makes
116, 1876, ,6S5 pounds. Another table shows
the estimated decrease and increase be-
tween 1884 and 1887, and between 1886
and 1887. For the former period there
was total decrease of Al, ,951, ,424 pounds,
and an increase of 8, 032, PIT pounds, max
ing net decrease of 80, 919, ,207 pounds.
The total estimated decrease between
1886 and 1897 is %, $50, 1875 pounds, and
an increase of /, ,720, 7S3 pounds; net de-
crease, 0,S61 1916 pounds. The increase
occurs in Oregon, Colorado, Montana,
Wyoming, Utah, Washington Territory,
Nevada, Dakota and Idaho. All the other
states and territories show a decrease.
For period between 1894 and 1887, Kan
sas, Minnesota and Nebraska show an in
crease, but these states are in the decrease
column for the period 1867. Texas
shows decrease Of 10, 166, 664 pounds for
three years, and 1924, 704 pounds the
past year. Ohio decreased 2, ,1S5, ,615
pounds in the three years, and 950, Cos the
past year.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-06-22
Boys and Trades.

A short time since a correspondent
who evidently knew how to WELD some
thing besides his pen, and this he uses
to a good purpose, made some observa-
tions. from which the jewelers. Journal
quotes as follows:
81 believe" says the writer, ''in schools
where bows can learn trades Peter the
Great left his throne and went to learn
how to build ship, and he learned
from stem to stern, from hull to mast,
and that was the beginning OF his great
ness. / knew a man who was poor and
smart. A friend sent him to one of
these schools up North, where he stayed
two years and came back as mining
engineer and bridge builder. Last
year he planned and built a cotton fac
tory, and is getting large salary. How
many college boys are there in Georgia
who can tell what kind of native timber
will bear the heaviest burden, or why
you take white oak for one part of a
wagon and ash for another, and what
timber will last longer under water and
what out of water? How many know
sandstone from limestone, or iron from
manganese? How many know how to
cut a rafter or brace without pattern
How many know which turns the faster
the top of a wheel or the bottom-as
the wagon moves along the ground ?
How many know how steel is made, and
how a snake can climb tree?
"How many know that horse gets
up before and COW behind, and the
COW eats grass from her and the horse
to him? How many know that sur
veyer's mark on tree never gets any
higher from the ground, or what tree
bears fruit without bloom?
"There is power of comfort in
knowledge, but boy is not going to
get it unless he wants it bad, and that
is the trouble with most college boys,
they don't want it. They are too busy,
and haven't got time. There is mors
hope of dull boy who wants knowledge
than of a genius, for genius generally
knows it all without study. These close
observers are the worlds benefsctors." +"
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-06-22
Interesting Cure Of Insanity.

An interesting instance of fighting in
sanity by insanity has recently been mo-
ticed among the Blackwell's Island
patients. Two lunatics had been re-
ceived who were disposed to commit sui
eide. In addition each possessed a spe-
cial delusion, one to the effect that his
head was an iron ball, and was to be
rolled along the floor. They carried
these beliefs into action, one striking
his head against the padded walls of his
cell, the other rolling his head, and of
course his body with it, along the floor.
The two patients were placed together,
and each was privately informed of the
others weakness and warned to watch
his companion to prevent him taking
his own life. Thus each had charge
in the other. Their vigilance was un-
ceasing. Each supposed himself per-
featly sane, and this belief was accom-
panied by considerable scorn for the
others weakness of intellect and accom-
panying delusions. Gradually under
the influence of this treatment the
patients were observed to improve. To
have their attention centered on definite
duty and on objects external to them.
selves proved ionic for their diseased
minds, and gradually complete cure
was effected, and they received theiI
discharge from the asylum.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-06-22
Death-Bed Repentance.

An old soldier lay dying in a little
town in Pennsylvania one day last
week. ..Is there anything on your
mind that troubles you?" asked his
pastor, as an expression of grave con-
Germ passed over the veterans face.
.Yes," said the dying man, s.there is.
have not made one of my opportuni-
ties / was in the war about four
years, in many battles. and thought i
tried to do my duty. But / never
picked up a lighted shell, with its
burning fuse sputtering close to the
shell, and threw it over the parapet of
the fort / have been a regular at
tendant upon army reunions, and ]
have read the newspapers since the
war, and find that am the only man
in the Union army who has not per
formed that feat, although / had
plenty of opportunities. Ny life has
been wasted. > "But why" asked
the pastor, kindly, .sdid you not do it
when you had the opportunity
ssBecause.r said the gallant old sol
der, 81 wanted to save the SHE'LL l
always knelt down and pulled the
fuse out with my teethr' And then
the noble life went out with snap
Hike : friction primer. Bob B1rdssf&
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-06-22
Marriage and Death Superstltions.

The bride must not keep the pins
which fastened her wedding-dress.
1t is bad luck to whistle or hum the
air that band plays at funeral.
"Twice a bridesmaid, never a bride, y
is a proverb which needs no comment.
Marry at the time of the moons wan
ing and your good luck will wane also
If two marriages are celebrated stimuli
taneously, one of the husbands will die
Fair or foul weather upon ones we'd
ding day augurs happy or unhappy
married life.
If a girl who is engaged accidentally
lets knife fall, it is sign that hel
lover is coming.
The girl who steps, accidentally el
otherwise, on a cats tail need not expect
to be married the same year.
The husband must never take off his
wedding-ring; to take it off will insure
him bad luck of some kind.
If two persons think and express the
same thought at the same time, one oi
them will die before the year passes.
Il two young girls are combing the
hair of third at the same time, it may
be taken for granted that the youngesi
of the three will soon die.
1t is bad luck to Cross a funeral pro
cession, or to count the number of car
riages in it; if you do count them, yor
NAV expect to die after the expiration
of as ynany weeks as there were carriages
at the funeral.
If at the cemetery there be any un
usual delay in burying the dead, causee
by any unlocked for circumstances
such as the tomb proving too small T.
admit the coffin, it is sign that thu
deceased is selecting companion from
among those present, and one OF thu
mOurners must soon die.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-06-22

Seldom has the price of product in
use for general consumption advanced
with greater rapidity than has that OF
coffee within the last twelve months,
and the bean Is now selling about 80
per cent. higher than it did this time
last year. 1t is the general opinion
among the uninitiated that this is owing
to a "eorner" in the coffee market and
that the high price is only temporary,
to fall again when those who are run
ming the corner have made all they can
out of the deal. But this is far from
being the real state of the case. True,
there NAV be a corner, but at the same
time it is very unlikely that the price of
coffee will ever again be as low as it has
been.
The real facts are that the high prices
now ruling are not due to corner, but
to the fact that the supply of coffee
throughout the ofiee-growing countries
has been getting shorter and shorter
every year, and the present outlook is
that it will continue to decrease until
coffee becomes a luxury only within the
reach of the wealthy. The cause of the
shortness of the crop is not the effects OF
rust and flies on the plantations, but 1t
is owing to the ravages of the hemelia-
vestatrix, or coffee-leaf disease, disease
that is now absolutely rampant over
every cofee-producing country in the
world.
Dealers and spectators in Europe
and America appear to be only now
waking up to the fact that this disease
is universal, and that it has come to
stay The "boom" in coffee some years
ago was so great that numbers of new
plantations were opened and the addi-
tional supply obtained from this source,
when they began to yield, nominally
kept up the crops, but they soon died
out, and nearly all the old plantations
have for years not yielded one-fifth, and
in some cases not one-tenth, of their
original average. Then dealers hugged
themselves with the belief that the
hemelia would depart and the coffee tree
recover from the disease in the same
way as it had done when attacked with
"black bug" and "rust," but this is a
very different matter and shows not the
slightest signs of abatement.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-06-22
Preservation of Wooden Poles.

A simple method of treating wood
with preservative solutions is employed
in Norway for telegraph poles. After
the poles are set in place a man goes
from one to another with an auger
with which he bores hole in each
post, beginning at point about 2 feet
above the ground, and boring obliquely
downward, at as small an angle as possi-
BILE with the axis of the post until the
point of the auger reaches the center of
the stick. The auger hole should be an
inch in diameter, and, in telegraph poles
of the ordinary size, will hold easily 4
to ounces of sulphate of copper, which
is put into it in the form of coarsely
powdered crystals, and the opening
then stopped with a plug, the end of
which is left projecting as handle, so
that it can be pulled out and replaced.
1t is found that the crystals of copper
sulphate disappear slowly, SO that every
three or four months the charge must
be renewed; while the wood, both above
and below the augur hole, even to the
very top of the pole, gradually assumes
the greenish tint due to the presence of
copper in the pores.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-06-22
Little Women at a Disadvantage.

Few have any idea of the trials and
tribulations of cultivated women, small
in stature, who seek honest employment
in this city. The little lady may be
modest, pretty, neatly dressed, affable
in conversation and agreeable In man
ner, yet almost every avenue leading to
a respectable living is closed to her.
The storekeeper picks his female help
in the spirit that animates him when he
makes display of goods in his windows.
And it must be confessed that practical
Iy, if not theoretically. he is right. A
commanding and ine-looking woman
will sell sealskin cloak in five cases
out of six, where a little body would
fail. The little lady may be refined
gold, but there is nothing impressive
about her. Her small nature is a mis-
fortune she cannet remedy. She cannot
become a foor-walker in a drygoods
emporium, for she lacks the swoop and
carriage and the lordly aplomb which
awe employees and attract purchasers.
She has great trouble in securing even
place behind the counter. Her fragillty
and tiny size are in the way. She can
not reach the goods on top shelf, nor
can she return them after a sale is made
without climbing to the counter, which
ungraceful act would quench the last
spark of dignity felt by nature at her
birth. She is out of place, again, in the
parlors of a fashionable milliner or
dressmaker. You may find her sitting
in a little back room adjoining, stitch
ing away in a bad light and worse at
mosphere, with her knees up to her
chin, but you will never see her III the
salesroom.
ga small woman is out of place in
showroom" said Madame Demorest,
when one of her friends sought situa-
ton for worthy but undersized lady.
81 have no use for her there. She can
not sell even a pattern. People will not
go to her. They will hardly ask her a
question. They pass her by as though
she was a child, and go to saleswoman
more stylish and commanding. One is
prominent and the other insignificant,
and the prominent figure invariably at
tracts attention"
A place for the little lady was found
in the mailing department at So week:
At the same time a tall woman OF good
figure, who carried her head like Juno,
neither well educated nor particularly
agreeable, was placed in the showroom
at $14 per week. She was not as re-
fined nor as painstaking as the little
one, but she had the physique SO highly
priced by an experienced modiste. The
little one toiled ten hours day, with
hardly respite, while the big woman
walked grandly up and down the parlor,
sales and keeping every
Al Snn
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-06-22

closed or protected from the recess of ssr
tne contents VIII remain good a long time
vi late years protection of the contents n
the egg by cold air has been pracficed 70
some extent -
Large concerns that hold over eggs for
market either preserve the eggs IN a lime
pickle or by the cold storage systern
Farmers and others who preserve eggs in
small quantities, as rule practice lirning
OF packing down in dry salt.
Inc inning system is inexpensive and
put little trouble. Eggs kept by this
process, however, while good Tor COOKING
purposes, such as making cake. uuddfne,s
and the like, are not like fresh laid ezr1s
when required for poaching or other ,lsss
where IT Ii essential that the yoIk remain
unbroken. --'--A'
10 lime eggs, make a pickle of strictly
pure stone lime, clean salt and uure water
In the following proportions: Two quarts
OF salt, one bushel Of lime and sixfv 0aI-
Ions of water. The lime is caref,5IIv
Stacked with part of the water. and the
salt and remaining water afterward added
when the mass is left to deposit the lime
until the solution becomes clear. A com
mon practice is TO draw of the solution at
.nls stage into cask or vat in which it is
designed to preserve the eggs. The eggs
A.
tin basin punched full Of holes. When
the vat or cask is nearly full, cover over
with factory cloth and spread on two or
three inches of the lime that settles in
making the pickle, and see TO it that the
pickle is kept continually up over this
lime.
Advocates for packing eggs in dry salt
arg all the while increasing I'm number
The editor IF The Rural New Yorker and
editor Of The Massachusetts, Plouehrnan
are amongst practical experimenters who
report favorably on the plan of packing
eggs In salt. Use small kegs being sure
that they are dry and sweet, put in a
layer of dry, fine salt, place the eggs in
the salt the big end down, close together.
out not touching. Cover with salt and
add another layer. Continue with alter
nate layers of eggs and salt until the keg
Is filled, being sure, of course, to finish
with heavy layer of salt Head the kegs
and lay on their sides in some spot where
a cool, even temperature can be main
tanned. Every few days turn the keg.
Ihe salt prevents evaporation and the
moving OF the keg keeps the yolks of the
eggs from adhering to the sides of the
shell.
Stephen Beale advises where eggs are to
be Kept long time that only infertiIe
ones be packed down. His experiments
make 1T appear that infertile eggs keep
longer and in better condition than do fer
tile ones.
Our advice is cold storage for large
concerns that handle eggs wholesale for
market. For home use we would put
down small packages of eggs in dry, fine
salt, as above described. When large
numbers are to be placed in one package,
then we would lime them. BY any mode
the necessity of a cool, even temperature
is emphasized. 1.-The World.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-06-22

Jupson-That's fine painting you We
got there, Jepson. Jepson-.Well, !
fatter myself that it is, you know.
Jupson-Is it one of the old masters,
do you think? Jepson-Well, 1 amt
exactly sure. but am going to have
the opinion of friend on that point
to-day. Jupson-Indeed. A connois-
seur? Jepson-I should say sol Why,
man. he's been in the tea business for
six years and handled thousands OF
pictures.-Boston Courier.
What was that great racket heard
in your woodshed after you got home
from fishing last night?" asked one
Estelline small boy of another. s.Ii
was me swingin' the buggy whip foi
fun" the other replied. ..But heard
somebody jumpin' around, too" 20,
that was pa, seeing if he could jump
over the wash-boiler and two tubs =
..But who was it yelled so like thun.
der?' .sWhy, every time he made an
extra high jump he would holler
kinder in fun, you know -"-Estellis<
Bel.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-06-22
THE CAPTIVE BROOK.

A brooklet from the mountains sped,
And wandered on its merry way;
Il wandered where its fancy led,
The livelong night, the livelong day.
Ii sang of dells where blrd-songs flow,
IL sang Of haunts where lilies grow,
II sang in tones that lovers know,
All day, all day.
The sunbeams on its ripples lay,
And laughter through its cadence broke
And az it danced away, away,
Unnumbered harmonies awoke.
Il loitered by the dropping flower,
II sang the love-dream of the bower,
The song was new from hour to hour,
All day, all day.
A miller came, one morn O. May,
And hound the brooklet to his mill,
Where labor wears the hours away,
And its harsh sound is never still.
And round and round to fill his store
The water turns the mill-wheel Ger,
But, ah the brooklet sings no more,
All day, all day.
Laura +. Hinsdaie, in The American Magaz Inc
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-06-22
Kissed Us Ali Around.

Some little time ago a young lady,
who had been teaching class OF half
grown girls in the Sunday-school OF DIR.
BIS church, Brooklyn, was called away
from the city, rennering it necessary to
fill her place.
The superintendent, after looking over
his available material for teachers, de-
cided to request one of the young gen
tlemen of the congregation to take the
class.
1t 50 happened that the young man
upon whom fell the superintendent 3
choice, was exceedingly bashful-so bash
ful,infact, that he insisted upon the super
intendent going and presenting him to
the class. Accordingly, the two gentle
men appeared on the little platform,
and the superintendent began: young
ladies, wish to introduce to You Mr..
c., who viii in future be your teacher.
would like to have you tell him what
your former teacher did, so that ne can
20 right on the same way
Immediately demure miss Of four
teen years arose and said: aThe first
thing our teacher always did was to kisz
MS ali all around. From the Portfolio
| of The American Magazine
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-06-22
A Picker-Up of Foreign Coin.

A quiet, sedate young woman who
wears glasses, always carries a couple
of books, and looks as if she were an
admirer of Browning. is one of the
queer characters who haunt the up
town hotels She is shrewd young
Jewess, in spite of her Bostonian APP
pearance, and makes good living by
buying the foreign coin which Is pick
ed up at the hotels from travellers who
exchange glittering foreign gold for
the cartwheel American dollars. The
hotels get the coin at discount. she
BUYS it at slight advance, and dis
poses of it in Wall street Her friends
saw there isn't coin struck but she
can tell its value at a glance She
picks up valuable pieces once in while
that GO to numismatists at handsome
premium.-N y. Times.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-06-22
Eight Hours q Day.

In his recent very sensible address to
workingmen in Boston, Edward Atkinson
said, respecting the proposed eight-hour
svstem: "If you cut down the work in
factories, in workshops, and in the build
ing trades to eight hours, you cut down
the product. Then there win be fewer
goods, fewer stores, fewer tools, fewer
houses. and that means higher price
and higher rent" This is the doctrine
that has been steadfastly preached in
our columns for years past The propo-
sition to try to make men richer by re-
ducing the hours of labor, and so reduc-
ing the amount of wealth created, is as
stupid as would be scheme for enIarg-
ing q water power by cutting down the
mill dam.-Textile Record
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-06-22
How He Stole His Girls Glove

o. little glove, do but dream hold thee.
So warm. so sweet, and tawny as her hatr2
Nayl from her hand tonight / dared unfolc
thee,
As we went down the stair.
She said no word; she did not praise or blame
me.
She IL so proud. SO proud, and cold and fair
Ali dear, my love, thy silence did not shame
me.
As we went down the stair.
Thy dark eyes flashed, thy regal robe arraye6
thee
In queenly grace and pride beyond compare
But on thy cheeks a sudden red betrayed thee
AS we went down the stair.
o, lady mine, some near night viii / prove
thee,
BY this soft glove know that may dare
Take thy white hand and whisper, Sweet
.love theel'
As we go down the stair
-Mintnn Gilmore
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-06-22
Advertising Rates.

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The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-06-22
snot Water for Plants.

SCOT is an excellent fertilizer for plants,
especially pot plants. An easy manner
of applying it is in water; tie the SCOT up
in a bag and place it in hot water, work
ing it around with the hands or a stick
until the water has washed the SCOT from
the bag; dilute with cold water. SCOT
water is excellent for roses, abutilons,
pelargorims and other Towering plants.
When the pots are full of roots it APP
pears to be especially effective.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-06-22

1 have used during two years past,
saws a correspondent in Husbandman,
water impregnated with gas tar for the
purpose of destroying the Colorado beetle
on my potato vines. 1t has proved more
effective than Paris green, and has been
used with equal effect upon my currant
bushes. Two quarts of gas tar to a pail
full of water are the proportions used, and
the vines or bushes are sprinkled by
means of watering pot.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-06-22
preparlnp Trees for,PIanting.

Prepare trees for planting by cutting
the tops back in proportion to the
amount of injury done to the roots, which
Is generally from one-half to two-thirds OF
the entire top. On this pruning all shoots
should be entirely cut away that are not
needed for the formation of a perfect head,
and the others cut back one-half to two
thirds of their length.
IL the head is not formed high enough
upon the trunk it may often be carried
higher by cutting off all lateral shoots,
leaving the most central one for leader,
upon which will be formed the new head
several inches higher than the first. AL
injured roots should have the ends cui
smooth with a sharp knife, and with
small fruits, like the grape, currant and
strawberry, it is often desirable to cul
back some of the larger ones.